Resources

This is a collection of funding opportunities that may be of interest to social scientists.
If you are a faculty member in the UC Davis Division of Social Sciences and would like help in applying for an extramural grant, please contact the ISS grant writer, Belinda Martineau: bmartineau@ucdavis.edu.

SoO funds research that advances our fundamental understanding of how organizations develop, form and operate. Successful SoO research proposals use scientific methods to develop and refine theories, to empirically test theories and frameworks, and to develop new measures and methods. Deadlines: February 2, 2018 (February 2 annually thereafter) and September 4, 2018 (September 3 annually thereafter).

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation jointly support individual scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. To be eligible for this special opportunity, an applicant’s plans for digital publication must be essential to the project’s research goals. Deadline April 11, 2018.

The Russell Sage Foundation has recently launched a number of new initiatives consistent with RSF’s interests in strengthening the methods, data, and theoretical core of the social sciences as a means of diagnosing social problems and improving social policies. Topics include: Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Integrating Biology and Social Science Knowledge; The Social, Economic, and Political Effects of the Affordable Care Act; Non-Standard Employment; and Computational Social Science.
Next deadline for Letters of Inquiry for the Non-Standard Employment and The Social, Economic, and Political Effects of the Affordable Care Act initiatives: November 30, 2017.

Digital Humanities Advancement Grants support digital projects from early start-up phases through implementation and long-term sustainability. Experimentation, reuse, and extensibility are hallmarks of this grant category, leading to innovative work that can scale to enhance research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. Deadline: January 16, 2018.

The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation. Deadline: July 19, 2018.